On this episode, Chris digs into some new releases, Andre pulls together the sounds of the new oi movement, Chris digs into a rare English Dogs cassette, Stephen does a tribute to Spot and a set on the Japanese fastcore scene in the Y2K era. And our demo feature is a band from Montreal called Jock. But up first a belated St Patrick's Day celebration with some Celtic punk.
THE MAHONES - Tin Soldiers (Divergent)
THE GRINNING BARRETTS - Star of the County Down (Self-Released)
THE CLOVERHEARTS - Junky (Dead Ferret Productions)
DROPKICK MURPHYS - Where Trouble Is At (Dummy Luck)
GOGOL BORDELLO - Shot of Solidaritine (Cooking Vinyl) - The Singer Eugene Hutz did an awesome interview on the Sunday Magazine on CBC talking about this album. Eugene is of Ukranian origin and this album is to raise money for Ukraine. The Album is called “Solidaritine”
New Releases (Chris)
VIDA MUERTA - Bloody Greed (Sistema Mortal)
TERRORVÄLDE - Deus econômico (Self-released)
VAROITUS - Sotatila (Phobia)
DEATH CRUSADE - Wojna (Elitbolaget / Deviance / Throne Of Lies / Hidden Beauty / Helldog)
XIAO - Fools (Quarantined HQ)
Today’s Crop of New Skinhead/UK 82’ Hardcore Punk Fighting Music
(André)
CONSERVATIVE MILITARY IMAGE - I’m Not Your Skinhead (Lionheart)
SKINHEAD - Soft Boiled (Closed Casket Industries)
THE CHISEL - Crocket (La Vidas Es Mus)
THE FLEX - Inferno (Static Shock)
VIOLENT WAY - You Are The Fool (Self-Released)
SLUGGER - I’m Not A Sucker (Try And Stop Me)
CONCRETE ELITE - Unbreakable Breed (Self Released)
THE ROYAL HOUNDS - Baby I Hope They Remember Me (Oi! The Boat/Contra)
New stuff (Rob)
PINK LEATHER JACKETS - Keep that Shit to Yourself (Self-Released)
STATUES - Dead of Summer (Lovely)
LUCIFER STAR MACHINE - Psychic Vampires (Feat. Sparky) (The Sign)
SCHEDULE 1 - Paint it Red (Dirt Cult)
THE BOBBY LEES - Dig Your Hips2 (Ipecac)
This next segment is for fans of English Dogs. A friend of mine named Daniel recently obtained a copy of an unreleased demo by English Dogs. He was nice enough to forward it to me. Many thanks to Daniel for this kind gesture. The interesting thing about the demo is that it was recorded during a massive sound and lineup change. English Dogs went from a UK82 style band to a crossover powerhouse in (what seems like) under a year. When writing for their new sound the dogs asked long time friend of rhythm guitarist Jon Murray, Trace Abbott to assist. Trace is the guitarist and founding member of the NWOBHM band Overdrive and also played with Witchfynde. Jon had played bass with overdrive prior to starting English Dogs. So, this demo is three songs. Two of which most English Dogs fans should be familiar with and one unreleased track. Let’s have a listen to some of the demo. This is the demo version, recorded August 22nd 1984, of Ambassador of Fear.
ENGLISH DOGS - Ambassador of Fear (Unreleased demo)
ENGLISH DOGS - Incisor (Unreleased demo)
Those were demo versions of Ambassador of Fear and Incisor by English Dogs. The lineup that recorded these versions consisted of 3 members of the classic line up. Jon, Wattie and Pinch. With Trace on lead guitar and friend of the band Troy on Vocals. I was lucky enough to speak with Trace regarding this demo and he helped me fill in a few blanks. I should mention that this is not uncharted territory. Negative Insight did a brief but informative write up about this rarity. Check the live Facebook commentary or the equalizingXdistort blog for links. One thing that struck me besides the difference in lead guitar players was that the demo featured a vocalist that wasn’t part of either lineup of the band; UK82 or crossover. As Trace explained, he was a friend. However, this demo was used to recruit a new vocalist; Ade Bailey formerly of Ultra Violent. Wakey having departed the band, because of the new music style. Due to Trace’s involvement in Pendragon coupled with the loss of a loved one, he was not able to fill the role of permanent lead guitarist. But life long friend of Trace and former member of the (most excellent) Destructors, Gizz Butt was recruited. Coming up next are the album versions (with Gizz playing lead and Ade on vocals) of the same two songs we just heard!! Once again, this is Ambassador of Fear.
ENGLISH DOGS - Ambassador of Fear (Rot Records)
ENGLISH DOGS - Incisor (Rot Records)
That was Ambassador of Fear and Incisor by English Dogs. This is the unreleased demo material from English Dogs. As well as album versions of the tracks; such as the last two songs we played. Kind of seeing how their sound evolved. Kind of nerding out. I spoke briefly with Trace Abbott of Overdrive (who played lead guitar on the demos) to help me fill in a few blanks. Trace paid to have the demos restored from 1/4” tape this year by Bart Gabriel. The tape itself was damp and covered in mold, but Bart was able to restore it and transfer it to a digital format. I asked Trace if he had done any other collaborations with members of English Dogs and the answer I got was yes; with a but. I mentioned that Jon was the bassist of early Overdrive. What I came to learn was Pinch teamed up with Trace for about a year in the band Metalstorm. However, the only recording was a live board recording that was stolen in 1989. Something that would definitely be nice to check out, unfortunately. In any case both the Dogs and Trace are still at it pursuing their own projects. Overdrive have a new LP ready and are currently looking for a well suited label. I can maybe drop that the album is called Resurrection and features riffs from the lost Metalstorm board mix. Hence resurrection. He’s also playing live with Witchfynde-X. We’re going to close out the set with an unreleased and mostly unknown English Dogs demo. Many thanks to Daniel, Trace, Gizz and Negative Insight for their contributions to this feature. As a lifelong fan this kind of material blows my mind.
ENGLISH DOGS - Cut and Dry (Unreleased demo)
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Spot (born July 1, 1951 – died March 4, 2023) best known for being the house producer and engineer for SST Records. He briefly played bass for Panic and recorded all the bands in this set.
PANIC - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
DESCENDENTS - Myage
HUSKER DU - First of the Last Calls
MINUTEMEN - One Chapter in the Book
CRUCIFUCKS - Go Bankrupt and Die
Japanese youth crew sound Y2K (Stephe)
TOTAL FURY - Slam Chop
RAZORS EDGE - Razors Edge is Most Thrash!! (Groupsounds)
EXCLAIM - No Skate No Thrash (Straight Up)
REAL SHIT - R is for Real (2 Hard / Mickeyroom)
VIVISICK - Beautiful Shit in the Crowd (Dan-Doh)
Jock is a Montréal hardcore band. The demo was released on March 14th.
JOCK - Guilty (Mouth of Madness)
JOCK - Leech (Mouth of Madness)
JOCK - Coward (Mouth of Madness)
JOCK - Baymen (Mouth of Madness)
JOCK - Working Class (Mouth of Madness)
JOCK - I Don't Trust Your Opinion (Mouth of Madness)
JOCK - Breaking Point (Mouth of Madness)
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